Category: featured writing

Mia finds a barn on the Iowa side of the Sioux City outskirts. It sits atop an almost imperceptible bump of a hill, a white sailboat against the ocean of the meadow rippling like waves in the wind. She couldn’t find her grandparents’ graves, and she still doesn’t know where, exactly, they used to...

Dana Diehl’s new chapbook, TV Girls (New Delta Review, August 2018), is a collection of short stories based on reality TV shows and celebrities. You don’t need to be familiar with The Bachelor or Sister Wives to enjoy the characters or their struggles, though. Whatever you’ve gleaned from reading People headlines in the grocery store checkout line and from your friends’ Facebook...

PLAYLIST FOR THOSE TIMES WHEN YOU WAKE UP WITH A MIGRAINE, HAVE AN ALL-DAY ASTHMA ATTACK, AND LEARN YOU NEED A ROOT CANAL. My Shit’s Fucked Up[1] Rub Me Raw[2] Poor Poor Pitiful Me[3] Something Bad Happened to a Clown[4] Sentimental Hygiene[5] Ain’t That Pretty At All[6] [1] Your body breaks down on you, betrays...

January 1, 2010

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Kelly Lynn Thomas

Kelly reads everything, writes weird depressing fiction, and always has a migraine. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her partner, their dog, a lot of tea, and too many books. Keep reading...

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